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It had long，beeour wish to pile a book concenrning litenuy the oriesand literary criticism as we observed how our students needed literary the-ories to guide them and methods for them to make use of iwriting the irgraduatiotheses and research papers oliterature.But whewe set about the work we found it must be a bulky volume that cacover the rich and varied content of literature.We had to confine ourselves to ccutaiaspects of it，and therefore what this book offers is but some elementary knowledge of literary theories and literary criticism.lt introduces to the students who are studying literature iEnglish at colleges and universities and the other English leamers who are interested iliterature，ithe simplest possibleway， the value of literature，its nature，views and opinions othe essence and functioof literature， and the ways we approach literary works.lncluded ithe book as samples of literary approaches are some research papers we wrote ourselves and essays by some critics selected from English joumais so that the students and the leamers may have articles odifferent subjects and of different styles for reference whethey write their owntheses .